Calender.getTime() not showing the date time of given timeZone

I am in timeZone +05:30 hrs and I want the time zone of Europe, so I am trying this:- 

    TimeZone tmz=TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Zurich");
    Calendar calender=new GregorianCalendar(tmz);
    Date date=calender.getTime();
    String datestr=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss").format(date);
    System.out.println(datestr+" CST");

But I am getting my timezone's time instead

Jon Skeet
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You need to set the time zone in the SimpleDateFormat. A Date value doesn't have a time zone, so your initial code is fairly pointless - you could just call new Date().

Note that your format string is incorrect too - you're using minutes instead of months, and you're using a 12-hour clock which almost certainly isn't what you want.

I suspect your code should be:

TimeZone tmz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Zurich");
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.US);
format.setTimeZone(tmz);
String datestr = format.format(new Date());

As an aside, if you possibly can, I would avoid using all these classes - use Joda Time if you're stuck on Java 7 or earlier, and the java.time package if you're using Java 8. They're far, far better date/time APIs.

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